Another great column about the “ethicists” who wrote an article about after-birth abortion.
I chatted with Brian Lilley about this on his show last night. (This is not online, sorry, so I can’t post it. When Sun TV chooses not to post my clips I always wonder if it’s because I was so god-awful that they can’t bring themselves to. Andrea: it’s not all about you.)
Anyhoo, Brian’s first question for me was “Does this shock you?”
Not tremendously, is my answer. Because this idea is as old as the hills. Older, in fact, depending on what hills you are referring to.
Brian also worried that after-birth abortion would take hold in society.
I said I thought not. Then I went on to say how defending life is a Judeo-Christian value and one we should be proud of.
But Canada is post-Judeo-Christian. We’re so far beyond that.
So if I could do the interview again, I think I’d share Brian’s concern. Leaving our Judeo-Christian heritage behind also means leaving behind such quaint notions as “it’s wrong to throw your baby off a cliff.”
A culture that can create sanitary clinics where pregnant mothers can go to have the “products of conception” vacuumed out of their uterus ain’t too far removed from one where babies are left exposed to die on hilltops. Sorry.
Something to think about.
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What we really need in this country of Canada is whistle-blowers. These would be people, like Jill Stanek, who work in the medical community and see first-hand what is being done in maternity wards. I know one nurse who told me about induced labours which result in babies of 24 weeks gestation being born alive and then they are left in cribs to await death. If someone like her were to go public (and yes, lose her job) we would begin to see the truth being exposed.
Unfortunately, we don’t seem to have anyone willing to risk their job and security for the sake of getting the truth out.
I fail to see how “after birth abortion” differs from taking a breathing child and dashing its head against some rocks.
This is sadly what’s been happening in China for years as a result of their forced “One child per couple” policy. Parents who have daughters kill them and try again. The liberals seem to want to bring that to the USA and Canada.